20 years ago today, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 1.0 as a Microsoft Plus! “Internet Jumpstart Kit” add-on for Windows 95. IE started behind the curve, but Microsoft set out to compete with then-top-dog Netscape Navigator. Microsoft dumped over $100 million per year into IE during the late 1990s. IE 6 was rated as the “eighth worst tech product of all time” in a 2011 list of the 50 worst fails in tech history.”]
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